Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in Latin America

4 units

This course offers students an immersion in the relevent debates on gender, sexuality, and the body as lenses through which Latin America can be understood. Through a variety of methodologies, perspectives, and document types, students will engage such diverse topics as: colonial gender systems; state violence; homosexuality; love and relationship; work; emotive culture; social discourse; citizenship; revolution; and identity. Through memoirs, primary archival sources, and secondary treatments of the past and present, as well as film, we will explore how gender, sexuality, and the body are not only important in understanding Latin America, but vital.